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<\/p>\nThe San Francisco Giants have dealt with a lot from the Los Angeles Dodgers over the past year.<\/p>\n
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They watched their National League West rival sign Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto before winning their second World Series in five seasons.<\/p>\n
Could president of baseball operations Buster Posey stick it to them by poaching starting pitcher Jack Flaherty via free agency?<\/strong><\/p>\n Flaherty struggled to a 4.99 ERA in 144 1\/3 innings in 2023 while splitting his time between the St. Louis Cardinals and Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n He once again played for two teams in 2024 \u2013 the Detroit Tigers and Dodgers \u2013 but had much better results.<\/p>\n The right-hander went 13-7 with a 3.17 ERA, 1.07 WHIP and 194 strikeouts in 162 innings. He signed a one-year, $14 million deal with Detroit last winter with hopes of rebuilding his value. Flaherty was successful in doing that and is now looking to cash in.<\/p>\n There have been several teams connected to the 29-year-old, including the New York Mets, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels and San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n While Deadspin’s Derek Brown is predicting Flaherty will stay in California on a multi-year deal, he sees the hurler signing a four-year, $100 million guarantee with the Giants.<\/p>\n This would be an affordable way for San Francisco to fill the void left by Blake Snell opting out and re-entering free agency this winter.<\/p>\n Pairing Flaherty with Logan Webb at the top of manager Bob Melvin’s rotation would strengthen San Francisco while simultaneously weakening the Dodgers.<\/p>\n Can the Giants pull it off, though? Flaherty is from the Los Angeles area and was drafted out of Harvard-Westlake High School in 2014. He also declared his love for L.A. during the club’s championship parade.<\/p>\n “This is unbelievable. I love this city. I never want to leave. I never want to leave,” he said.<\/p>\n This move makes sense on paper for the Giants, but it might be hard to turn it into reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The San Francisco Giants have dealt with a lot from the Los Angeles Dodgers over the past year. They watched their National League West rival sign Shohei… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"\n